Scarpa at Bestia, one of the most cutting-edge and compelling wine lists in the U.S.
Above: Housemade bucatini topped with burrata at Bestia in Downtown Los Angeles. “I call [my] list ‘a tribute to chaos,’”Continue Reading
Author: Do Bianchi
A humanistic perspective onto the world of Italian food, wine, and culture.
Scarpa at Spiaggia in Chicago, one of America’s Italian pioneers
Antica Casa Scarpa’s director Riikka Sukula recently completed a week of “market work” (as it is called in trade parlance)Continue Reading
Piedmont’s white truffles: one of the greatest examples of terroir
If we define terroir as the unique combination of soil, exposure, climate, and human intervention resulting in a food productContinue Reading
Taste Scarpa with a ghost this Halloween in New Orleans’ French Quarter
It’s Halloween this week in the U.S. and so we thought we’d share a story about a genuinely haunted houseContinue Reading
Taste top wines from Scarpa Nov. 7 in Houston
Scarpa wine director Riikka Sukula and Italian wine educator Jeremy Parzen will be pouring and discussing the following wines inContinue Reading
“Traditional sometimes means rustic, but that’s not the case here.” Why La Bogliona is considered the apotheosis of Barbera d’Asti
Scarpa’s Barbera d’Asti La Bogliona, writes Scarpa’s U.S. importer Ernest Ifkovitz on his website, is “the top single-vineyard Barbera fromContinue Reading
The Slow Food University of Gastronomic Sciences and its alumni at Scarpa
In 2004, Carlo Petrini, the activist founder of the Slow Food movement, launched the Slow Food University of Gastronomic SciencesContinue Reading
